According to section 10.4 of memoir manual double column ﬂoats may only be placed at the top of a page. However, I need a tikz graph at the bottom of the page.

So I have tried using minipage(floating is not required), but have not been able to get this approach to work either - either the text flows through the graph, or the graph is not at the bottom of the page.

What should I change to properly position a tikz figure at the bottom of the twocolumn page?

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You problem is not specific to memoir. According to the UK TeX FAQ, full-width floats in two-column LaTeX documents are not permitted at the bottom of the page. The FAQ also reveals a partial remedy (use the dblfloatfix package) as well as its shortcomings (e.g., "the float will appear, at its earliest, on the page after it is specified" ).